24 dec 06 ; know the content of your thought

Know the Whole Content of One Thought

Not being anything is the beginning of freedom. So if you are capable of feeling, of
going into this you will find, as you become aware, that you are not free, that you
are bound to very many different things, and that at the same time the mind hopes to
be free. And you can see that the two are contradictory. So the mind has to
investigate why it clings to anything. All this implies hard work. It is much more
arduous than going to an office, than any physical labour, than all the sciences put
together. Because the humble, intelligent mind is concerned with itself without
being self-centered; therefore it has to be extraordinarily alert, aware, and that
means real hard work every day, every hour, every minute. ...This demands insistent
work because freedom does not come easily. Everything impedes - your wife, your
husband, your son, your neighbor, your Gods, your religions, your tradition. All
these impede you, but you have created them because you want security. And the mind
that is seeking security can never find it. If you have watched a little in the
world, you know there is no such thing as security. The wife dies, the husband
dies, the son runs away - something happens. Life is not static, though we would
like to make it so. No relationship is static because all life is movement. That is
a thing to be grasped, the truth to be seen, felt, not something to be argued
about. Then you will see, as you begin to investigate, that it is really a process
of meditation.

But do not be mesmerized by that word. To be aware of every thought, to know from
what source it springs and what is its intention - that is meditation. And to know
the whole content of one thought reveals the whole process of the mind.

The Book of Life - December 24